Newsletter June 2019
In Memoriam
Joe Fallon RIP
Joe Fallon, former member of the Maritime Institute, died on 1st May 2019 after a long illness. Joe served as Commodor...
Margaret Downey Harrington Receives BIM Lifetime Achievement Award By Richard McCormick
Margaret Downey-Harrington from Castletownbere, Co. Cork was honoured with the BIM National Seafood Lifetime Achievement Award for her ...
MFV Nordkap Returns to Dun Laoghaire By Richard McCormick
In August 2018, during the wedding of Ciara Joyce and Erol Aycan in the Maritime Museum, a scale model of the Norwegian, 1959 built, si...
An April Disaster in Wartime Greenock 1940 By Pat Sweeney
April this year was the 79th anniversary of the sinking of the French Destroyer, Maillé Brézé, in Greenock in Scotland on the last day ...
Shipping News By Pat Sweeney
This shipping review focuses on Ferries. The hull of the new WB Yeats was launched in January 2018 with the final two superstructure un...
Brendan Neary – Obituary from 1993 By Jim Wolohan
The Mariners Church in Dún Laoghaire houses two aspects of the Maritime Institute’s activities – the museum and the library. As the gre...
Brendan Neary – Notes from the Past By Joe Varley
1988 was an eventful year in Brendan’s life. It was the 400th anniversary of the Spanish Armada and this generated the same type of med...
Library News By Brian Ellis
Over the last year there have been a significant number of book donations to the Museum Library involving several hundred volumes. Ther...
SS Dundalk -14th October 1918 By Charley McCarthy
The Ship SS Dundalk was built in Glasgow in 1899 at a cost of £40,000 as a flagship for the Dundalk and Newry Steam Packet Company. Her...
Some Thoughts on Brexit By Terry Conlan
On 23rd June 2016 the UK voted by 51.9% to 48.1% to leave the European Union. Such a narrow victory - if such it was - has led to major...